There is the ideal of free speech, and then there is reality: censorship, persecution, and prosecution of dissidents.
By David Merlin ∙ June 28, 2018
In February, Californian State Senator Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) introduced Senate Bill 1424; a law which would require the California Attorney General to create a new advisory committee. The advisory committee would be required to study how false information is spread online and come up with a plan for social-media platforms to fix the "problem." The committee would also…
By David Merlin ∙ June 22, 2018
You would have to be a bit crazy to take on the immensely rich Southern Poverty Law Center. It has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars, much of it stashed overseas, and has a huge staff of attorneys, but Maajid Nawaz did and he won. The SPLC is paying a $3.375-million settlement Mr. Nawaz is a…
By Thomas A. Fudge ∙ July 24, 2003
By David Merlin ∙ June 18, 2018
Last December, Twitter purged numerous far-right, white-nationalist, and Holocaust-revisionist accounts as part of its updated "terms of service." In February Jared Taylor, founder of the publication American Renaissance, sued Twitter for banning his account, claiming the censorship “violated civil rights and contract law.” Rather than discuss the matter, Twitter came out nasty, claiming Taylor's suit violated its rights to free speech and was trying…
By Joseph G. Burg ∙ June 14, 1980
By Jett Rucker ∙ June 6, 2018
They’re in jail(s), for saying they (don’t) believe things you also probably (don’t) believe, whether and wherever you might (or might not) say so. They are in Germany, but they might as well be in any of dozens of other countries that would punish them similarly, or worse, for saying what they said, and what…
By David Merlin ∙ June 6, 2018
Germany's president Frank-Walter Steinmeier appeared at a monument to gay victims of National Socialism to ask for forgiveness for the suffering and injustice gays endured. Steinmeier spoke June 2nd in a ceremony marking the persecution of gays by the Hitler regime.Steinmeier claimed that more than 50,000 men were persecuted by the Nazis and were "tortured, sent to prisons and to concentration camps." Steinmeier went on to…
By Ernst Zündel ∙ January 1, 1996
By Richard Evans ∙ December 15, 1998
By Jett Rucker ∙ June 4, 2018
Censorship is like cancer, or a wildfire. Once it gets a spark, it spreads out of control faster than the fire that consumed the library at Alexandria two millennia ago. CODOH’s Castle Hill Publishers, of course, has been censored in a vital way by the final success of the World Jewish Congress in getting amazon.com…
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